Robert Luxton a yeoman
farmer at Bishops' Cottage in Brushford, was
the executor of the will of his father Bernard
luxton buried at Brushford November 15,
1765. There are no details of the will which
was destroyed in the Exeter Blitz.

Two Brushford Contracts relating
to Robert's business transactions are preserved
in the Devon Records Office. They need to be
consulted for full details as Brian Luxton informs
us that he has only seen the barest abstracts.
In the first an assignment dated July 15 1778,
Robert is described as a yeoman of Bishops'
Cottage in Brushford, and in the second, a counter
lease for 21 years from Lady Day 1778, made
the following day July 16, 1778, Robert was
now described as Robert Luxton of West
Rewe in Brushford and he agrees to pay a rental
of £19 for the messuage called West Reeve,
alias West Rewe, to Robert Luxton of
Brushford Barton, gent who retains timber rights
on the property. The Brushford Land Tax Assessment
needs to be consulted, to establish if Robert
continued to farm at West Reeve after 1799,
when the lease was due to end. Robert Luxton
was buried at Brushford on June 27, 1812 and
his will was proved at Barnstaple on April 18,
1813. Again details have not survived the blitz.
His widow, Elizabeth, who died aged 80, was
buried at Brushford on June 27, 1815.